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Supernatural Fiction: Folk Tales, Ghosts, and Spirits 灵异类小说 民间故事,鬼怪 幽灵

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  1. 101 Dark Tales 2: The Fame and Fortune Circuit 恶谭2:名利场 Mystery267k WordsCompleted [Mind-bending mystery + criminal investigation + deduction + episodic stories + the depths of human nature + stunning twists + hard-core sleuthing] “Where fame and fortune reign, disputes are sure to arise.” A woman's corpse hidden inside a Buddha statue in an ancient temple, a mysterious online celebrity, and a group of suspects with tangled connections: Tan Zheng takes on a baffling murder case. As the investigation deepens, he discovers that the case is far more complicated than it first appe 249Reads9.3Score104Shelves
  2. 102 Record of the Spirit Seekers 2: Farewell to the Mortal World 访灵笔录2:入世辞 Mystery196k WordsCompleted [Mystery + supernatural + powerful partners + lively humor + episodic stories + ghostly tales + an ensemble cast hunting ghosts] “Nothing brings greater joy than meeting a new friend; nothing brings greater sorrow than parting from a loved one.” A chance encounter with a beauty on Ghost Wasteland Mountain turns out to be a deadly ghost's attempt to claim a soul! Karmic ties from a past life and entanglements in this one: whose mistake is it, and whose fate? Quan Ning and Yin Cangyi are accidenta 36Reads7.9Score—Shelves
  3. 103 Baby Lantern 婴儿灯 Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted When I was five, I fell into the water and my soul left my body. With my own eyes, I saw the legendary baby lantern said to lure away souls. I initially thought it had come to harm me, but that wasn’t the case. As I continued to investigate, a sinister layout targeting me slowly came to light... 201Reads—Score—Shelves
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  4. 104 The Mystical Art of Spirit Communication 玄之通灵 Mystery268k WordsCompleted This is a novel made up of short stories about supernatural events. Some are true, some are false, and some are exaggerated, with humor, comedy, horror, and all manner of paranormal happenings... 7Reads—Score—Shelves
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  5. 105 My Days as a Disciple of the Spirit Mediums 我当出马弟子的时光 Mystery47k WordsOngoing A true account of spirit-medium practices, giving you an authentic look at every little detail! Every story and every person in this book is based on real events! 14Reads—Score—Shelves
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  6. 106 I Summoned a Bound Spirit 我招魂招来了“地缚灵” Mystery10k WordsCompleted My Séance Summoned a “Bound Spirit” 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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  7. 107 Seated Immortal 坐仙 Mystery431k WordsOngoing [Urban Supernatural] [Multiple Heroines] My name is Lin Xi. After an accident, I unexpectedly return to the year 2000, just after a car crash, and discover that I’ve gained yin-yang eyes. I can see souls and the spirits of the dead. When a spirit possesses someone, I can communicate with the deceased’s friends and family. The practice goes by different names in different places, and is also known as spirit invocation or spirit mediumship... From then on, I walk between the worlds of the living a 2Reads6.8Score—Shelves
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  8. 108 The Ruyi Teahouse 如意茶馆 Mystery359k WordsOngoing In a lively old town stands a century-old teahouse where residents and passing travelers come to rest. Who could have guessed the true meaning of the words “as you wish”? As you wish, as he wishes, or... as it wishes! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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  9. 109 The Young Zombie Hunter 捉僵少年 Eastern Fantasy521k WordsOngoing On one side is a passionate young man just starting out, dreaming of becoming the greatest zombie-hunting celestial master. On the other is a thousand-year-old zombie, the strongest in history, who has slumbered for a century. An unforeseen turn of events sets the rookie young man on the path of hunting zombies. Strength and weakness, good and evil, who will emerge as the ultimate victor? 12Reads7.2Score—Shelves
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  10. 110 The Ghost Bride (Based on a True Story) 鬼新娘(真实事件改编) 8k WordsCompleted The Ghost Bride (Based on a True Story) 4Reads—Score—Shelves
  11. 111 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: I Asked You to Repay Your Debt, Not Paint Skins and Ghosts 聊斋:让你还债,没让你画皮画鬼 Eastern Fantasy125k WordsOngoing [Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio + Bizarre Cultivation + No System + Subverting Expectations + Folk Supernatural Tales + Becoming a God Through Painting + Dark Tone + Lovecraftian Horror + Clever Protagonist + Decisive and Ruthless + Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment] Transmigrating into Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, I find myself trapped in the deadly predicament of The Painted Skin from the start, and saddled with an unpayable debt to the dead? Don't panic. I have a White Bone Brush tha 427Reads—Score—Shelves
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  12. 112 A Chronicle of Debut 出道纪事 Mystery509k WordsOngoing [No formulaic tropes, no wish fulfillment, no web-novel conventions, traditional supernatural fiction, based on real events. Read with caution if any of this bothers you.] I graduated from high school in 2014 and became a disciple of my master, Li Jingshan. I spent three years studying the Dao and another three learning the arts. Then I spent five years practicing them in the world, occasionally gaining new insights. I enjoy reading novels, but lament that today's books are all baseless fabricat 326Reads8.5Score100Shelves
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  13. 113 The Life of a Spirit Medium’s Disciple 出马弟子的人生 Mystery229k WordsCompleted A novel about real experiences and nothing but facts, centered on the real practice of spirit-mediumship! I hope you enjoy it! No fantasy power trips or immortal cultivation: every bit of it is based on real experiences! 396Reads8.1Score—Shelves
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  14. 114 I Received an Order from My Dead Boyfriend 接到死去男友的订单 Mystery126k WordsCompleted On the Ghost Festival, Su Xixi receives an order from her boyfriend, who has been missing for three years. Her boyfriend, who died a gruesome death, sends Su Xixi a desperate plea for help from beyond the grave. But after she puts his restless spirit to rest, he keeps sending her orders to thank her. From then on, Su Xixi becomes a guide between the worlds of the living and the dead, and a mortal shadow appears beside the River of Forgetfulness. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  15. 115 Paranormal Tales from the Northeast Countryside 东北农村灵异小故事 Modern Romance9k WordsCompleted Spooky Little Stories from the Northeastern Countryside 7Reads—Score—Shelves
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  16. 116 I Buy Antiques at the Ghost Market 我在鬼市收古董 Mystery591k WordsCompleted I opened an antique shop. One day, a customer told me about a temple that was said to have a way of getting hold of fine goods. The temple had strange rules: it only opened at midnight, and everyone had to leave before three. I found a treasured bronze mirror there, and from then on, one bizarre event followed another. I nearly got crushed to death by my own shop sign; the golden retriever at home suddenly went berserk and chased me, snapping at my heels; and my health kept getting worse by the 319Reads8.3Score—Shelves
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  17. 117 The Netherworld Inn 阴间客栈 Mystery814k WordsCompleted My name is Qin Yu. While on a business trip, I checked into a uniquely styled inn called the Yin Room Inn. It even offered “special services” in the middle of the night. Little did I know it was an inn from the underworld. I began having nightmare after nightmare, and my friends kept getting into trouble... 2.7kReads9.0Score145Shelves
  18. 118 After Eighteen Years of Foolishness, I Became a Yin-Walker 痴傻十八年后我成为了走阴人 Mystery262k WordsOngoing Every ancient village has a mysterious legend passed down through the generations: the Village Guardian. They bear a secret duty, using their broken bodies to ward off disasters and misfortune for the village, shouldering every calamity alone. People say they have come to the mortal world to endure hardship, and that their suffering in this life will bring blessings in the next. Yet fate treats them cruelly. Most die young, grow old alone, and endure endless mockery and cold stares. And I am one 13Reads—Score—Shelves
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  19. 119 The Yin-Yang Mortal World 阴阳尘世 Mystery317k WordsOngoing Yin and yang are opposing yet balanced forces, like Heaven and Earth, the sun and moon, darkness and light. At some point, the balance of yin and yang in the mortal world was broken. Strange paranormal phenomena known as “Corruption” spread across the world. To maintain the balance between the yin and yang realms and cleanse the world of “Corruption,” the onmyoji came into being. As Luo Yin, an onmyoji, delves deeper into the paranormal and supernatural incidents plaguing the mortal world, she d 10Reads7.1Score—Shelves
  20. 120 A Collection of Folk Ghost Stories from Northeast China 东北民间鬼故事集 Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted The comic adaptation of the same name is now available, also known as Mountain Spirit Lost. The comic Northeast Strange Tales is currently being serialized. Across the vast, boundless black earth of Northeast China, one strange and little-known story after another has unfolded. Now, I’ll tell you these long-buried tales of the supernatural, one by one! 45.2kReads9.4Score4.8kShelves
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  21. 121 Short Horror Stories 短篇恐怖故事 Mystery113k WordsCompleted A crescent moon hung over Beijing late at night, casting its light over the empty streets, where yellow streetlamps glowed dimly. At that hour, nobody was out and about, and the whole city had sunk into a deep, peaceful sleep. He stepped outside and looked back at the office building, now shrouded in darkness, then drew a deep breath. The chilly late-autumn breeze was like a mischievous girl gently fanning his face, and it felt wonderfully refreshing. 2Reads7.5Score—Shelves
  22. 122 The Haunted Houses I’ve Experienced 我经历的凶宅 Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted The older generation often says that people who die violent deaths cannot enter the cycle of reincarnation. Their souls endlessly haunt the places where they died, seeking substitutes. Only then can they be reborn. That’s why we often hear in the news about car crashes that keep happening at certain locations. Sometimes the place isn’t even a proper intersection, yet terrible accidents leave cars wrecked and people dead. Some streams aren’t even as deep as a person is tall, yet every year there 2.4kReads8.9Score214Shelves
  23. 123 400 Folk Ghost Stories 400个民间鬼故事 Mystery759k WordsOngoing Those who scare easily, stay away! This collection of folk tales is made up entirely of things I have personally seen and heard. One strange, little-known story after another: these long-buried supernatural incidents are now yours to hear, one by one! (Better to believe they exist than to believe they don't.) 24Reads—Score—Shelves
  24. 124 The Yin-Yang Hot Pot Restaurant 阴阳火锅店 Mystery806k WordsCompleted I took over a hot pot restaurant from my second uncle. He told me never to serve customers a yuan yang hot pot after midnight! After I took over the place, everything I believed in began to crumble... One night, I wasn't paying attention and served a couple a yuan yang hot pot. The next day, I saw in the newspaper that the couple had died! They'd jumped to their deaths together! After that, every night at midnight, a strange couple would appear in my restaurant and ask me to make them a yuan yan 1.1kReads7.7Score—Shelves
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  25. 125 Whispers by the Candlelit Ruins 幽庭烛烬语 Mystery1.3M WordsOngoing In the dead of night, countless eerie secrets lurk in the dark folds of the city. The knocking in an old apartment, known as “Knocking at Midnight,” rings out like clockwork at three in the morning. When a woman living alone peers through the peephole, all she sees is a roiling cloud of scarlet blood mist in the hallway, while a damp scratching comes from the doorknob. In the basement of a century-old apothecary, “Whispers in the Medicine Crock” never cease, day or night. Every night at midnight 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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  26. 126 The Best Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site 工地最强建筑风水师 Mystery1.8M WordsOngoing [Campus Opening + Wild Imagination + Feng Shui Mysticism + Supernatural Oddities + Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu, and Hui (Spirit Mediums) + Bureau 749 + Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Mohism, and Legalism + Gu-Fighting + Qimen Dunjia + Mohist Mechanisms + Lu Ban's Craft + Reincarnated Living Buddha]! This novel blends the supernatural, fantasy, magic, science fiction, and historical military fiction, aiming to create a Chinese version of The Avengers and Justice League. This is a fast-paced novel, espec 2.2kReads8.3Score307Shelves
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  27. 127 I Can Only Fight Monsters, and That Lets Me Cultivate? What Is This, Liaozhai? 只会打怪,就能修仙?什么聊斋! Mystery398k WordsCompleted From the start, he accidentally eats a dragon's egg, gets chased by the dragon, and stumbles into the world of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! Kill the monsters, keep the pretty spirits! Then he discovers that killing ghosts and monsters lets him gain their abilities! Magical treasures, cultivation techniques, buried riches? Wait, can he also score treasures and techniques by taking in spirits? Any way of recruiting them works~ 97Reads—Score—Shelves
  28. 128 Soul Snatcher: The Demon King Can Never Bring Himself to Strike 夺魄,大魔王总是下不了手 Eastern Fantasy337k WordsCompleted [Two Souls Transmigrate + Incomplete Body Takeover + Demon King/Saintly Savior Hybrid + Traditional Fantasy + No System + Religious Power Struggles] On the night his soul was seized, the great demon king Mo Chenxing was surrounded by the five great sects and fell off a cliff, barely clinging to life. With his protector’s help, he was reborn through soul possession inside the body of Zhang Qiuchi, a poor scholar. Before his soul was taken, his right arm had been cut off, leaving him unable to ful 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  29. 129 Tales of My Best Friend's Haunting 闺蜜诡事录 Mystery32k WordsCompleted Tales of Strange Events Among Best Friends —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  30. 130 Terror at the Luxury Estate 豪苑惊魂 16k WordsCompleted Terror at the Grand Estate 18Reads—Score—Shelves
  31. 131 The Secret of the Buddha Mother 佛母的秘密 34k WordsCompleted The Buddha Mother's Secret 2Reads—Score—Shelves
  32. 132 The Blind Woman’s Wedding 盲女的婚礼 32k WordsCompleted The Blind Girl's Wedding 18Reads—Score—Shelves
  33. 133 The Mysterious Corpse Retriever 诡秘捞尸人 Mystery10k WordsCompleted The Mysterious Corpse Retriever 20Reads—Score—Shelves
  34. 134 The Girlfriend Who Disappeared 我消失的女朋友 Sci-Fi & Apocalypse14k WordsCompleted My Girlfriend Who Disappeared 7Reads—Score—Shelves
  35. 135 The Mysterious Domain City 诡秘域都 99k WordsCompleted The Mysterious Domain City 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  36. 136 The Strange Sword 诡剑 98k WordsCompleted The Ghost Sword 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  37. 137 The Qingling Rankings 清凌榜 43k WordsCompleted The Qingling Rankings 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  38. 138 Folk Horror Stories from Across China 中国全国各地民间恐怖故事 Mystery2.0M WordsOngoing Adapted from folk tales told by colleagues and friends. This story contains frightening scenes, so please read with care. If it involves any sensitive information, please contact the author to request revisions. Thank you. 13Reads—Score—Shelves
  39. 139 Notes on Folk Spirit Mediums 民间出马仙笔记 Mystery95k WordsCompleted [Spirit Mediums + Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Stories + Supernatural Mystery + Karma + Mind-Blowing Twists + Feng Shui and the Occult] "Unraveling one strange and unpredictable tale of karmic retribution after another" In a remote suburb of the city lies a cemetery. Few people know that a shop dealing in the supernatural stands there, run by a spirit medium who can communicate with the dead and the living. The owner specializes in paranormal cases beyond ordinary people's understanding, but 468Reads9.3Score—Shelves
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  40. 140 My Years as a Buddhist Nun 我当师太的那些年 Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted I was born a girl with a Pure Yang fate into a family of feng shui masters. For generations, my family had practiced feng shui in the countryside. My grandfather had hoped his eldest grandchild would be a boy, so he could pass down his skills to the eldest son and grandson. But I turned out to be a girl. Grandfather never took a liking to me, so my parents could only take me to live in the city. No one expected that, during the Ghost Festival in the year I turned twenty-five, Grandfather would s 376Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  41. 141 I Run a Paper Effigy Shop 我有一间扎纸店 Mystery806k WordsCompleted I Have a Paper Effigy Shop tells the story of the protagonist, Liu Dabao, who runs a shop making paper effigies. One day, a guy named Li Xunhuan asked me to burn him a villa and gave me a jade pendant, saying someone would come to collect it later. That evening, a woman came to pick up the pendant and gave me a thousand yuan. But who could have guessed that the next day, the money vanished and turned into a pile of white paper! Was it ghost money for the dead? Were Li Xunhuan and that woman both 138Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  42. 142 It's All the Haunted House's Fault 都是凶宅惹的祸 Mystery907k WordsCompleted I'm a mystery writer. In search of inspiration, I moved into a house rumored to be haunted. Every night, a horribly disfigured face appeared in the window, and outside, the rotten corpse of a woman hung from a tree. I realized then that this really was a haunted house! Gradually, my family began acting strangely, and we even found a mummified corpse sealed inside the wall for years! As I investigated further, I came across something even more terrifying… 124Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  43. 143 Legend of the Demon-Slaying War 平魔传 Urban1.5M WordsOngoing This is a work I wrote many years ago, now revised and presented to you! Its original title was The Demon-Slaying War. If you've read it before, feel free to keep reading! No System, no evolution, no being reborn. It's been restored to the fantasy world of old! 496Reads—Score—Shelves
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  44. 144 Hiring a Handsome Guy to Guard the House 雇个帅哥来镇宅 Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing [Horror, one heroine] What do you do when you’re nearly broke? With no other options, Shang Yi reluctantly took a night-shift job, and it completely upended his worldview! The elevator, hallways, underground parking garage, bathrooms… Those places were already enough to give him a headache. But what troubled him even more was the attention he got from beautiful women… Strange incidents kept happening in the residential complex, yet the residents went on living there as if nothing were wrong. The 82Reads—Score—Shelves
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  45. 145 One Thousand and One Modern Tales of the Supernatural 一千零一个,现代灵异故事 Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted [Based on True Stories] [Folktales] [Horror and the Supernatural] The stories in this novel feel full of everyday life. The people and events in every story are portrayed in a realistic way, bringing to life the supernatural experiences of all the main and supporting characters. If you’re a horror story fan, don’t miss this novel. (If you get scared, call your best hapless friend over… so you can be scared together.) 3.8kReads6.9Score161Shelves
  46. 146 The Ghost Speaks Not: The Ghost's Lament at Xiandun 鬼不语之仙墩鬼泣 Mystery201k WordsCompleted Ghosts Don't Speak: The Ghost Cries at the Immortal Mound is the first book in the latest tomb-raiding series, Ghosts Don't Speak. Taking the mysterious ancient Chinese Nuo religion as its point of departure, it tells a twisting, perilous tale of tomb raiding. The story begins with legends passed down orally by the protagonist's ancestors. The protagonist ventures into the Northeast, travels through the Central Plains, and heads southwest in search of the legendary rare treasures and the secrets 1.9kReads9.3Score359Shelves
  47. 147 My Career in Funeral Services and the Supernatural 我的殡葬灵异生涯 Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted After graduating, I joined the funeral industry and learned about its many secrets. I also encountered all kinds of terrifying, bizarre supernatural incidents. Let me tell you about some truly unusual tales of terror and the taboos of the funeral trade... The latest work by a free-spirited programmer. As always, the promise stands: suspense and horror taken to the extreme. 2.8kReads8.4Score256Shelves
  48. 148 Terror: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚:我只卖凶宅 Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted Rooms where unnatural deaths have occurred are collectively known as haunted houses. There are two kinds: “blue houses” and “red houses.” Living people can stay in blue houses without harm, but anyone who lives in a red house is doomed to die. I work as a real estate agent. One day, I accidentally sold a red house, and afterward, I began encountering terrifying things… 37.6kReads9.2Score4.1kShelves
  49. 149 Folk Secret Arts: The Yuan Guang Technique 民间秘术之圆光术 164k WordsCompleted Have you ever wondered what secret arts of ancient times could pierce the mysteries of heaven and earth and reveal the truth? Open this book and discover the legend of the Light-Circle Art, a tradition passed down for millennia. Born from suspicions surrounding a treasure theft in the immortal realm, it was an “ancient surveillance system” created by immortals. With talismans, it conjured a luminous screen to expose the schemes of petty thieves in the demon realm. As it spread among mortals, it 27Reads—Score—Shelves
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  50. 150 The Wife’s Coffin Smoke 妻棺烟 58k WordsCompleted The Wife's Coffin Smoke 7Reads—Score—Shelves

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